Immigration – Visa

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Peter B. Yusev et al v. Jeff Sessions

Case No.: 16-1338; 16-2242

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and ROVNER, Circuit Judges

Focus: Immigration – Visa

United States since 2005. They managed this by overstaying their initial one-year non-immigrant visas. On August 16, 2007, some 18 months after their initial entry, they applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). They are citizens of Bulgaria, since 2007 a Member State of the European Union, but they belong to its Macedonian minority and assert that they have been persecuted on that basis. First an immigration judge, and later the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or Board), turned down their requests. The petitions for review now before us challenge the Board’s refusal to reopen their case based on their attorney’s alleged ineffectiveness, and its refusal to reconsider the ruling on the motion to reopen. Finding no abuse of discretion in either of the Board’s decisions, we deny the petitions for review.

Petition Denied

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